Mind Quotes
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?Laurence J. Pete
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.Albert Einstein
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.Anna Freud
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.Helen Hoover Santmye
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.Author Unknown
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.Benjamin Franklin
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.Mortimer Adle
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.Francis Bacon
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.Marianne Williamson
One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.Helen Krome
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.William Shakespeare
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.William Shakespeare
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.Juvenal
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.William A. Orton
Mind is the great lever of all things.Daniel Webste
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.A. E. Houseman
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be high - Spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow - Minded and all to prudent.Vincent Van Gogh
